Catskills and the Hudson River Valley

Dan Burkholder's home in Palenville, New York, is known as the First Artists' Colony in America because artists in the early 1800's stayed in local homes and establishments at the base of Kaaterskill Clove, the picturesque break in the mountains rich with dramatic waterfalls and rocky streams. These landscape painters, including Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, Asher B. Durand and others, created art that came to be known as the Hudson River School.

Burkholder honors this history with his photographs of the Catskills and the surrounding Hudson River Valley. The images echo the romanticized relationship with Nature enhanced by the early painters and memorialized by their cultural contribution to American Art.